Mississippian Fossils, Joana Limestone, Northern Needle Range (Carboniferous to of the United States)

Where: Millard County, Utah (38.7° N, 114.0° W: paleocoordinates 10.0° S, 51.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kinderhookian to Kinderhookian (358.9 - 343.0 Ma)

• The contact with the underlying Pilot Shale has been placed at the base of a two foot bed of pink weathering quartzite or at the base of the first prominent limestone cliff. The contact with the overlying Chainman Shale has been placed at the top of the upper shert-bearing unit of the Joana Limestone

Environment/lithology: gray limestone and black chert

• The formation consits of thin to massive bedded, dark to medium grey, clastic and crystalline limestone. In the upper unit, black and brown weathering chert occurs in thin bands and irregular nodulars. The chert constitutes up to 10 percent of the total unit. Weathered surfaces of the limestone are light to medium grey, and have a raspy, meringue texture. Upon fracture, the encrinites emit fetid odor, while some of the darker, crystalline limestones emit moderate to slight hydrocarbon odor.

Primary reference: W. J. Gould. 1959. Geology of the Northern Needle Range Millard County, Utah. Brigham Young University Research Studies, Geology Series 6(5):1-47 [T. Olszewski/M. Gibson/L. Fall]more details

PaleoDB collection 13361: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Melissa Gibson on 10.03.2002, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora surcularia Girty 1899 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
"Triplophyllites subcrassus" = Amplexizaphrentis, "Triplophyllites paucicinctus" = Amplexizaphrentis
"Triplophyllites subcrassus" = Amplexizaphrentis horn coral
"Triplophyllites paucicinctus" = Amplexizaphrentis horn coral
 Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
Amplexocarinia sp. Soshkina 1928 horn coral
 Stauriida - Cyathopsidae
Caninia sp. Michelin 1840 horn coral
 Stauriida - Bothrophyllidae
 Stauriida - Kleopatrinidae
"Lithostrotion whitneyi" = Heintzella whitneyi
"Lithostrotion whitneyi" = Heintzella whitneyi White 1875 horn coral
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Euomphalidae "sp. 2"1 White 1877 snail
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
Loxonematidae "sp. 2"1 Koken 1889 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
"Spirifer cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus
"Spirifer cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus Morton 1836
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchoporidae
Rhynchopora sp. King 1865
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
Leiorhynchus sp. Hall 1860
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Athyridida - Retziidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp. Brown 1849
Strophomenata
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis
"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis Norwood and Pratten 1855
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae